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Measurement of the transverse target and beam-target asymmetries in $\eta$ meson photoproduction at MAMI

Authors :
Akondi, C. S.
Annand, J. R. M.
Arends, H. J.
Beck, R.
Bernstein, A.
Borisov, N.
Braghieri, A.
Briscoe, W. J.
Cherepnya, S.
Collicott, C.
Costanza, S.
Downie, E. J.
Dieterle, M.
Fix, A.
Fil'kov, L. V.
Garni, S.
Glazier, D. I.
Gradl, W.
Gurevich, G.
Barrientos, P. Hall
Hamilton, D.
Hornidge, D.
Howdle, D.
Huber, G. M.
Kashevarov, V. L.
Keshelashvili, I.
Kondratiev, R.
Korolija, M.
Krusche, B.
Lazarev, A.
Lisin, V.
Livingston, K.
MacGregor, I. J. D.
Mancel, J.
Manley, D. M.
Martel, P.
McNicoll, E. F.
Meyer, W.
Middleton, D.
Miskimen, R.
Mushkarenkov, A.
Nefkens, B. M. K.
Neganov, A.
Nikolaev, A.
Oberle, M.
Ostrick, M.
Ortega, H.
Ott, P.
Otte, P. B.
Oussena, B.
Pedroni, P.
Polonski, A.
Polyanski, V. V.
Prakhov, S.
Reicherz, G.
Rostomyan, T.
Sarty, A.
Schumann, S.
Steffen, O.
Strakovsky, I. I.
Strub, Th.
Supek, I.
Tiator, L.
Thomas, A.
Unverzagt, M.
Usov, Yu. A.
Watts, D. P.
Werthmüller, D.
Witthauer, L.
Wolfes, M.
Source :
PRL 113, 102001 (2014)
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

We present new data for the transverse target asymmetry T and the very first data for the beam-target asymmetry F in the $\vec \gamma \vec p\to\eta p$ reaction up to a center-of-mass energy of W=1.9 GeV. The data were obtained with the Crystal-Ball/TAPS detector setup at the Glasgow tagged photon facility of the Mainz Microtron MAMI. All existing model predictions fail to reproduce the new data indicating a significant impact on our understanding of the underlying dynamics of $\eta$ meson photoproduction. The peculiar nodal structure observed in existing T data close to threshold is not confirmed.<br />Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PRL

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
PRL 113, 102001 (2014)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1408.3274
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.102001